potent
Potent means really strong, but not like a body builder. Use potent instead to describe things like intense smells, powerful magic potions, and very influential people.
From the Latin potentum, meaning “powerful,” potent is just that: having tremendous strength or influence in either a moral or physical sense. A potent question gets to the heart of the matter and sparks serious discussion. Really stiff drinks can be potent, as can your breath after a garlicky meal. And as the composer Igor Stravinsky once asked, "What force is more potent than love?"
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having or wielding force or authority
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having great influencesynonyms: powerfulinfluentialhaving or exercising influence or power
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having a strong physiological or chemical effect“a potent toxin”“"a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink”effective, effectual, efficaciousproducing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effectfertilecapable of reproducingequipotenthaving equal strength or efficacymultipotentable to many thingsantonyms:impotentlacking power or abilityimpuissantlacking physical strength or vigorpowerlesslacking power
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(of a male) capable of copulation
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